Flesh carved not of creation
Nor of accidental occurrence
An act of aggression, release
Confirms self control's reassurance
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beautiful composition...artful meaningful metaphoric phrases...good work Wendy
Wendy! you have captured here not only the pain of the portrait but of the unknown sculpture bravo!
I've never understood why a person would cut themselves, and your poem has brought me much closer to seeing. You're a powerful writer. Looking at a random selection of your other poems, it seem to me that you tend to stick to similar forms in your poems, it could just be the ones I looked at, but I wondered if you experimented, for example with free verse. Great title / concept and very concise evocative language.